[Freeipa-devel] Is there RPC documentation?

[Rob Crittenden]

Rich Megginson wrote:
> On 02/26/2014 08:53 AM, Petr Viktorin wrote:
>> On 02/26/2014 04:45 PM, Rich Megginson wrote:
>>> I'm working on adding support for freeipa DNS to openstack designate
>>> (DNSaaS).  I am assuming I need to use RPC (XML?  JSON?  REST?) to
>>> communicate with freeipa.  Is there documentation about how to construct
>>> and send RPC messages?
>>
>> The JSON-RPC and XML-RPC API is still not "officially supported"
>> (read: documented), though it's extremely unlikely to change.
>> If you need an example, run any ipa command with -vv, this will print
>> out the request & response.
>> API.txt in the source tree lists all the commands and params.
>> This blog post still applies (but be sure to read the update about
>> --cacert):
>> http://adam.younglogic.com/2010/07/talking-to-freeipa-json-web-api-via-curl/
>>
>>
>
> Ok.  Next question is - how does one do the equivalent of the curl
> command in python code?

Here is a pretty stripped-down way to add a user. Other commands are 
similar, you just may care more about the output:

from ipalib import api
from ipalib import errors

api.bootstrap(context='cli')
api.finalize()
api.Backend.xmlclient.connect()

try:
     api.Command['user_add'](u'testuser',
                             givenname=u'Test', sn=u'User',
                             loginshell=u'/bin/sh')
except errors.DuplicateEntry:
     print "user already exists"
else:
     print "User added"